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Costa Rica on Wednesday launched a fundraising campaign titled Huella del Futuro with the goal of planing 200,000 trees in nine northern cantons by September 2021. 

Costa Rica thus became the first country in Central America to receive resources from the Green Climate Fund.

Costa Rica is offering tourists the opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint as part of a program to support ecotourism.

Scientists have calculated that rising CO2 concentrations in oceans could soon cause a phenomenon called hypercapnia in fish, whereby they lose their sense of direction.